Bukavu

provincial capital and city in South Kivu, DR Congo
Place border_city Q222279
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Bukavu

Summary

Bukavu is a border city[1]. Bukavu draws 177 Wikipedia views per month (border_city category, ranking #10 of 89).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bukavu is located in South Kivu[3].
  • Bukavu is located in South Kivu[4].
  • Bukavu is in the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo[5].
  • Bukavu is in the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo[6].
  • Bukavu's image is recorded as Bukavu centre ville.png[7].
  • Bukavu's image is recorded as Ville de Bukavu vue de nguba.jpg[8].
  • Bukavu's instance of is recorded as border city[9].
  • Bukavu's instance of is recorded as official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[10].
  • Bukavu's twinned administrative body is recorded as Palermo[11].
  • Bukavu's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 172299753[12].
  • Bukavu's GND ID is recorded as 4431281-7[13].
  • Bukavu's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n84226154[14].
  • Bukavu's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12511325x[15].
  • Bukavu's IdRef ID is recorded as 034348913[16].
  • Bukavu's Commons category is recorded as Bukavu[17].
  • Bukavu's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 5327777[18].
  • Bukavu's located in time zone is recorded as Central Africa Time[19].
  • +1901-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Bukavu[20].
  • Bukavu's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -2.5, 'lon': 28.866666666667}[21].
  • Bukavu's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -2.4908333333333, 'lon': 28.842777777778}[22].
  • Bukavu's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/029pz0[23].
  • Bukavu's official website is recorded as http://www.mairiedebukavu.net/[24].
  • Bukavu's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bukavu[25].
  • Bukavu's Commons gallery is recorded as Bukavu[26].
  • Bukavu's page banner is recorded as Bukavu centre ville (cropped).png[27].

Body

Geography

Country listings include Democratic Republic of the Congo[5], a sovereign state[28], in Democratic Republic of the Congo[29], founded in 1960[30]. Located in include South Kivu[3], a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[31], in Democratic Republic of the Congo[32].

Physical Characteristics

Bukavu's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+60'}[33]. Bukavu's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1498'}[34]. Bukavu's population is recorded as {'amount': '+707053'}[35].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include border city[9] and official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[10].

History and Context

+1901-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Bukavu[20].

Why It Matters

Bukavu draws 177 Wikipedia views per month (border_city category, ranking #10 of 89).[2] Bukavu has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Bukavu is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . comune.palermo.it. comune.palermo.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [35] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [34] . wikidata.org.
  28. [33] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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